So THAT's what it's called: OPERA PINK... I've seen it on paintings and wanted it, now I'll finally go get it. Love the video!

@BeckyTregear

3 жыл бұрын

It's definitely a really pretty colour! Sometimes it's called opera rose, depending on the brand. 🌹

Patty- I really appreciate your swatching all of those colors. What an excellent reference these cards can be when choosing colors to buy. I had never heard of gerichromes before. I learned something new. I am attracted to metallic and glitter colors so those last ones you swatched on black paper were great. I don't own any Daniel Smith paints so this was very helpful. Thank you.

@BeckyTregear

Жыл бұрын

Oh great, I'm glad my video was useful! It is always helpful to see everything swatched out and being able to choose colours from the entire collection. 🙂

I wish I'd found this video sooner, it's so helpful. Thank you Becky. I've screen shot the four charts and already I've added some colors to my buy list and switched some others out based on the colors being cooler or warmer than I expected. I'm starting with the basic warm and cool red, yellow and blues. I found the blues easily but there are too many yellow and red choices lol. I love 4 greens so I guess I'll have 4. 🤷‍♀ That just leaves a couple of earthy browns and I'm leaning towards at least one that granulates. Plus now I've seen it I might add pearlescent shimmer too for just that little bit of sparkle on the water in seascapes or a bit of dew on a plant. I know this video is a couple of years old and you probably have black paper now but I noticed that Daniel Smith makes colored watercolor grounds to prep paper, boards or canvas with. It comes in transparent, white, pearlescent white, iridescent gold and black. The black would show off those sparkly paints.

@BeckyTregear

Жыл бұрын

I'm so glad this video is still helpful! It's always so hard to pick a palette from scratch; I spent many, many hours trying to figure out which colours to choose first. I do indeed have some black paper now; Stonehenge have a gorgeous cotton paper pad and it works perfectly. I've used white ground before, and it's not my favourite surface but I'd be curious to try the black out.

Thank you so much for this! I have recently began using DS watercolours and I am obsessed with them. I have too many colours in my radar and this will help me to (maybe) shorten the list. I absolutely adore their earth colours! I paint mostly birds, insects, mushrooms, and earth tones are incredibly useful on their own or in mixes. Quin burnt orange and scarlet mixed with different blues make the most rich, gorgeous greys and browns. Natural Sienna Monte Amiata and French Ochre mixed with a tiny bit of Dioxazine Purple result in fabulous beiges. Yesterday I mixed all my yellows with purple and it is mind blowing how different the results are considering that many yellows (normals and ochres) are on their own. Now I have to mix my other near 50 pigments with one another. 🫣😂

@BeckyTregear

Жыл бұрын

You can never have too many colours! I tell myself this on a daily basis, haha. ❤

As this is a long video, here are some time stamps so you can click through to individual pages. Card 1 Yellows, Oranges, Reds, Pinks: 4:43 Card 2 Purples, Blues and Greens: 16:31 Card 3 A few greens and Earth Colours: 27:59 Card 4: Darks, Durochrome, Interference, Pearlescent and Iridescent: 39:32

@catbugg9957

2 жыл бұрын

Btw To clean your brush cleaner you can use the turners acryl palette cleaner. A little goes a long way and gets out most of the paint stains

The pearlescent shimmer is as wonderful as it seems. I found a sale and bought a second tube, even though I'd barely started the first. It really creates a wonderful but subtle shimmer for florals.

@BeckyTregear

Жыл бұрын

I ended up getting a tube; it is so pretty and shimmery! 😊❤️

36:23 and yet that is one I really like 😂 I like that it’ll just blend into the background but offer some depth

My green apatite genuine is a totally different color than this dot chart…it’s so beautiful and dries with a beautiful separation of green and brown! Great for eye colors! Don’t write it off cause of this dot color! It’s amazing!

Thanks for sharing your take on the DS dot cards, it's fun to hear about what you've used and which ones you're considering for your palette. FYI, DS probably uses the Nickel Titanate Yellow to make the colors more opaque like the original cadmium colors. I got some samples of the new DS cad colors when they came out about 15 years ago (DS eliminated cadmium and manganese from their line because of fears that some might escape into the nearby waterways and waste system--heavy metals are difficult for municipal water systems to filter out, so they can get dumped into waterways and ground water) and rarely use them unless doing portraits. But they are lovely colors.

@BeckyTregear

4 жыл бұрын

That's really interesting to know some of their history, thank you for sharing! I love heavy metal colours (and music, lol) but they definitely wouldn't be very environmentally friendly. Safer, less toxic versions are better for us all.

I so appreciate you taking the time to do this!!!

Enjoyed watching you swatch these! A few new colours to add to my wish list!

@BeckyTregear

4 жыл бұрын

There are so many amazing colours to choose from, and I remember it being so hard to pick the first ones for my set. I spent hours, possibly days, dithering over them! 😂

i have just bought the full dot card set. 271 paints plus. 5 cards now december 2023. i have painted 1 painting and will definately get several more 😀🥰

@BeckyTregear

8 ай бұрын

They keep releasing more and more colours, haha! Have fun with your dot cards; they're great to have. 😊

I use Ult Red. It's pasty and not very saturated. I do like it though. Mine seems more pinkish that it looks in the video - almost like cobalt violet. I also use Napth Maroon and recommend it - a slightly of muted Bordeaux, but flexible and beautiful.

Love this swatch of gorgeous colors !😍

@BeckyTregear

4 жыл бұрын

They were so much fun to paint out, and they all look so pretty side by side 💜

Most helpful video! Thank you!

That was fun. I just watched this back to back with the W&N dot cards!

@BeckyTregear

Жыл бұрын

That’s a whole lotta dots! 😂

That was so fun to watch!

@BeckyTregear

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I'm glad! 😁

You are very lucky at the size of the dots you received. I purchased the same item and my dots were seriously half the size. Just a thought to keep In mind if you haven’t yet got these dot sheets, you might be surprised like me.

@BeckyTregear

3 жыл бұрын

I did rummage through to find the best looking one, lol, so you have a very true point there! It's annoying when the dots aren't generous enough to get a good swatch.

That deep scarlet is beautiful and is now in my virtual cart. 😇 Thanks for sharing this swatch-a-thon!

@BeckyTregear

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it helped and inspired you! Thank you for watching :-)

Amazing video. Thank you for such a thorough and interesting job.

@BeckyTregear

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I hope it was useful!

I can’t afford Daniel smith 😭 just came to see the pretty colors and your bubbly personality ❤

@BeckyTregear

6 ай бұрын

They are very pricey! I haven't bought any new tubes for ages because I can't justify the cost. I'm glad I bought them a few years ago before everything in the world got ridiculously expensive. 😭

Yay so helpful!

For duochrome colours finetec flip flop colours are so much better as they switch between two different colours depending on the angle of viewing. No matter which way she moved the Daniel Smith ones they only reflected one colour really.

I really like your vids

@BeckyTregear

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you 😊💖

Super helpful thanks so much.

@BeckyTregear

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad it helped! ☺️

Those irodescent colours o.O so beautiful! Ohh, did you get the Mijello pure pigment paints? It's been a bit of time hopefully you received them

@BeckyTregear

Жыл бұрын

Alas, not yet! Postage here is annoyingly slow; I hope they show soon, and I'll let you know when they do. 🙂

Really enjoyed this! Is it me, or do all the yellows look alike? I have 4 yellows on my palette: nickel azo yellow PY150, and the three Hansa Yellows. I'm also interested in getting the Pearlecent Shimmer - it's so neat; I'll find some use for it! I think Ill get the next, updated form of the dot sheet, whenever it comes out. Thanks, Becky! ;:

@BeckyTregear

3 жыл бұрын

A lot of the yellows are very similar, haha! I think it is because Daniel Smith has so many pigments in their range. Makes it very hard to choose, lol. I picked up the pearlescent shimmer and it's really, really pretty. I am so behind on making videos for my Daniel Smith paints! Oh and I am not sure if you saw my recent Mystery Mail video...I opened the package you sent, and thank you SO much for everything, I love the brushes and paints a lot! ❤️💜

Is greenish umber bad in its paint consistency? I love the color itself as a camo color, maybe close to US dollar bill color.

@BeckyTregear

9 ай бұрын

It's hard to tell from dot cards as they can sometimes be too dried out and difficult to rewet. I like your ideas for using the colour!

i haven't watched any from the dot card after the first few, i'm actually using them to paint with , also on ebay a woman is selling sample sets high end , all the big ones i have bought 8 sets so far

@BeckyTregear

3 жыл бұрын

You can get quite a lot of paintings out of the dots, so they're quite useful for that and it saves having to buy an entire tube. Yes I have seen some pretty cool looking dot cards in various places. ❤

I have the dot cards..lol

This was amazing to watch. Did you know they also sell the watercolors in stick form as well.

@BeckyTregear

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I have a few sticks somewhere in the studio....I need to find them again! 💜

Did my swatch cards along side this video, even though it was sped up, I just went faster... 😅

@BeckyTregear

2 жыл бұрын

Haha I think I had it at double speed. 😂

What’s everyone’s big problem with German Raw Umber LOL Am I the only one who actually like that color LMAO

@BeckyTregear

2 жыл бұрын

Don't worry, plenty of others do too! 😂

Clean it with olive oil